Secular evolution of continents and the Earth system

PA Cawood, P Chowdhury, JA Mulder… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of secular evolution of the Earth system is based largely on the rock and
mineral archive preserved in the continental lithosphere. Based on the frequency and range …

Voluminous continental growth of the Altaids and its control on metallogeny

T Wang, H Huang, J Zhang, C Wang… - National Science …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The Altaids is generally considered to be the largest Phanerozoic accretionary orogen on
Earth, but it is unclear whether it was associated with extensive continental crustal growth …

Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth's earliest continental crust

RH Smithies, Y Lu, CL Kirkland, TE Johnson, DR Mole… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Much of the current volume of Earth's continental crust had formed by the end of the
Archaean eon (2.5 billion years ago), through melting of hydrated basaltic rocks at depths of …

Archaean multi-stage magmatic underplating drove formation of continental nuclei in the North China Craton

J Liu, RM Palin, RN Mitchell, Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The geodynamic processes that formed Earth's earliest continents are intensely debated.
Particularly, the transformation from ancient crustal nuclei into mature Archaean cratons is …

No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth's crust in the Archean

RH Smithies, Y Lu, TE Johnson, CL Kirkland… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Much of the present-day volume of Earth's continental crust had formed by the end of the
Archean Eon, 2.5 billion years ago, through the conversion of basaltic (mafic) crust into sodic …

[HTML][HTML] The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes

DR Mole, PC Thurston, JH Marsh, RA Stern… - Precambrian …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The formation of the continental crust in the early Earth, and the geodynamics that drove it,
are fundamental to understanding the evolution of our planet, but remain intensely debated …

[HTML][HTML] Cenozoic lithospheric architecture and metallogenesis in Southeastern Tibet

B Xu, ZQ Hou, WL Griffin, YC Zheng, T Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Ore systems are located in zones of enhanced and focused heat and fluids flux within the
lithosphere. In order to target deep ore deposits under cover, a better understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] Crustal architecture and metallogeny associated with the Paleo-Tethys evolution in the Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau

X Zhang, X Zhao, L Fu, Y Li, A Kamradt, M Santosh… - Geoscience …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB) in the Northern Tibet Plateau hosts a
wide variety of metal deposits related to the Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic magmatism. In this …

Geochronology and petrogenesis of the TTG gneisses and granitoids from the Central Bundelkhand granite-greenstone terrane, Bundelkhand Craton, India …

PK Singh, SK Verma, VK Singh, JA Moreno… - Precambrian …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In this contribution we present field relations, U-Pb zircon geochronology, in-situ Lu-Hf
isotopes, bulk-rock Sm-Nd isotopes and geochemistry of the tonalite-trondhjemite …

Widespread reworking of Hadean-to-Eoarchean continents during Earth's thermal peak

CL Kirkland, MIH Hartnady, M Barham… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The nature and evolution of Earth's crust during the Hadean and Eoarchean is largely
unknown owing to a paucity of material preserved from this period. However, clues may be …